Blair stays on another year?

[jamesg]

What are the likely outcomes of Tony Blair remaining as Prime Minister for another year?
He stood down in 2007 but I was wondering what would have happened had he remained for another year. He would be there when the financial crisis hit.
Would he stay on longer, through such a time? Could he remove Brown from the Treasury, blaming his economic management?
Or would the recession hitting bring Blair down fast?

[Deleted]

What if Blair stayed on until 2010?

[curiousliberal]

Events (and Brown) would do for him, and if they involved a financial crisis, that might have really helped Brown with the blame game in 2010. There's a smaller chance they might actually hurt Brown, if they managed to provoke a why-didn't-you-dethrone-him-earlier backlash, but their power struggle was common knowledge well before its end.

Blair hypotheticals always remind me of that r/neoliberal fan-post in which he reassumes leadership of the Labour party and leads a successful election campaign against the Johnson-led Conservatives (featuring a bizarre chumminess with an ennobled David Cameron). That's unrealistic, but I wonder whether the recent prominence of elder statesmen in active leadership roles in the democratic world might inspire him to take a more active role in 2024.